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My guitar threw up all over me.

German translation: abkotzen

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English term or phrase:throw up
German translation:abkotzen
Entered by: Tanja Wohlgemuth

15:46 Dec 6, 2001
English to German translations [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: My guitar threw up all over me.
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abkotzen
Explanation:
Meine Gitarre hat auf mir / über mir abgekotzt.
(this seems to work, doesn't it?)
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Tanja Wohlgemuth
Germany
Local time: 19:02
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1[COMMENT]
DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X)
4 +2abkotzen
Tanja Wohlgemuth
4 +1I was fed up with the guitar (wrong tone, wrong key?)
Uschi (Ursula) Walke


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
[COMMENT]


Explanation:
I am not sure how to put it into good German, but I think, universally, we would all be somewhat unstrung by that experience!


    EBGDAE
    attuning myself to a great discordance
DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X)
PRO pts in pair: 5

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Uschi (Ursula) Walke: hit the wrong note (wrong language maybe)
2 hrs
  -> not surprising to me at all, Uschi, considering your general lack of humor...just call me an unstrung hero!
agree  JózsefÁrpád Bende
55 days
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
I was fed up with the guitar (wrong tone, wrong key?)


Explanation:
There is a German expression:

Das kotzt mich an (literally: it's throwing up on me) meaning: I'm disgusted with it, I'm fed up with it, I'm sick and tired of it.

You might be looking at a very very bad
German-English translation.

HTH
:-)

Uschi (Ursula) Walke
Local time: 03:02
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 175

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X): the guitar puked on him..so who was fed up after all?
5 mins
  -> Diese Gitarre kotzt mich an bedeuted that I'm fed up with this guitar. Let's change the subject!!! :o)
agree  Sibyl Marquardt: I think you really got it: if it was translated from German into English (literally), then the result is just what you have. These too-literary translations kotzen mich wirklich an... ;-)
13 hrs
  -> Danke! (giggle) und es heißt bedeutet anstatt bedeuted weiter oben (seufz)
agree  JózsefÁrpád Bende
55 days
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
abkotzen


Explanation:
Meine Gitarre hat auf mir / über mir abgekotzt.
(this seems to work, doesn't it?)


    my brain
Tanja Wohlgemuth
Germany
Local time: 19:02
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 49
Grading comment
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alison Schwitzgebel: yeah, go for grunge....
26 mins
agree  JózsefÁrpád Bende
55 days
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